Easy Cookies ‘n Mint Ice Cream

Cookies ‘n Mint Ice Cream is perfect for these hot summer days…and you don’t need a machine! Just a few simple ingredients create a delicious ice cream, made even better with the addition of Cool Mint Cream Oreos!

Sometimes I reallllly hate being an early bird. I’m a morning person, through and through. Up with the birds…and as soon as 8pm hits, I’m pretty much no good for anything. I’m 35…going on 70. I’ve pretty much always been this way.

As a teen, it really sucked. I had a morning curfew: I could not, under any circumstances, call any of my friends before 10am. I’d be sitting there in my room, watching X-files reruns on USA just willing the clock to tick past 8:35…then 9:50…then finally! At 10am I could make my first phone call…and wake whomever was on the other end.

It’s only gotten worse as I’ve become an adult…and a parent. Especially when Jordan takes after me and her father, so 6am is sleeping in for her.

I, in fact, sleep in the most in my family. 6am is my preferred wake-up time. You don’t want to know what time my husband gets up. One time, a friend who plays words with friends with him wondered about the time being off on her app…until I told her that, no, its’ true. He does play it at 4am.

Poor Jordan never had a chance.

Oh well, while everyone is still sleeping in the morning, I get a lot of things done. I can make ice cream without a machine, and it’ll be frozen by dinner.

Yesterday I asked which recipe I should post today: ice cream or cupcakes…and the result was a resounding ice cream. Of course – it’s summer. It’s hot. Who wants to bake?

{I hope you do. Cupcakes coming tomorrow…}

This ice cream is the most simple, easiest ice cream you’ll ever make.

I call it Cookies ‘n Mint Ice Cream…but the other name for it would be Jordan’s Ice Cream. She loves mint. It’s her favorite flavor combo. Her birthday cake was mint. She asks for mint everything…including ice cream.

I am always happy to oblige her. Chocolate + Mint is one of my favs too!

The mint in this ice cream is exponentially mintier because I used Cool Mint Oreos in it. Mint ice cream + Mint cookies = Mint squared. Mint to the second power. Mintalicious.

Is it weird to say that this ice cream is more refreshing than regular ice cream? Because it’s mint? For some reason, cool mint flavor in an ice cream just screams refreshing to me. Cool mint ice cream to cool you off in this sweltering heat.

Instructions

Pulse Oreos in a food processor until you get a fine crumb. Add butter and pulse until chunks form. Set aside.

Stir together sweetened condensed milk and peppermint extract in a large bowl. (I like to do this in a tupperware, so that it can go straight to the freezer without me having to wash anything!) Fold in Cool